# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virginia-lee-burton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:24:53.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virginia-lee-burton"
name: "Virginia Lee Burton"
slug: "virginia-lee-burton"
description: "Virginia Lee Burton, also known by her married name Virginia Demetrios, was an American illustrator and children's book author. She wrote and illustrated seven children's books, including Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1939) and The Little House (1943), which won the Caldecott Medal. She also illustrated six books by other authors."
tagline: "American children's writer and illustrator (1909–1968)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Black_and_white_headshot_of_author_Virginia_Lee_Burton.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1909-08-30"
deathDate: "1968-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.051408
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123759/"
    handle:    "nm0123759"
sources:
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    title: "فرجينيا لي بورتون"
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    title: "فرجينيا لى بورتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Virginia Lee Burton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Lee_Burton"
    title: "Virginia Lee Burton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Lee_Burton"
    title: "Virginia Lee Burton"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump